208: Molly Jong-Fast on Trump’s First Week

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🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump was sworn in (again) this week. Who better than Molly Jong-Fast from the Fast Politics podcast to join us to discuss his first week in office? We relive some quotable moments from his inaugural address and look at his most damaging executive orders. We also rundown some of the Cabinet nominees. Is anyone going to be stopped? Or are the Republican Senators too afraid of Trump?

Plus, Molly shares her roadmap of things to be hopeful for. Maybe it's not all bad!

Listen to Molly's podcast, Fast Politics, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fast-politics-with-molly-jong-fast/id1645614328

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change.
0:08.6	And this time, I swear I mean it, because Molly Jong Fast is my guest today.
0:14.2	You may know Molly from her podcast, Fast Politics, or for her many appearances on MSNBC.
0:21.2	And you love Molly for the great podcast she's done with me and the ones we do with Mark
0:27.0	Leibovich.
0:27.9	But today Mark couldn't make it because he's in Greenland, I guess scoping it for a possible
0:33.6	invasion by our military.
0:36.2	There are about 57,000 people in Greenland, so, you know, we could take
0:40.1	them with one hand, died behind our back. Of course, I think an easier way to handle it would be to
0:46.2	request of Denmark that they let us build a base or, you know, even two in Greenland. Our NATO
0:51.8	allies host plenty of our bases. You'd think Denmark would be happy to
0:56.7	see us drop a couple billion bucks for an air base and maybe a naval base with some Marines.
1:03.2	I don't know why Trump's so focused on Greenland becoming a U.S. territory, Peter. What do you think?
1:10.1	Is Trump still trying to take over Greenland?
1:12.5	If I'm being honest, I've been trying not to pay too much attention to this kind of stuff.
1:16.7	What do you mean? I'm just trying to maintain my sanity. I'm sorry? Okay, look, I listen to you
1:23.2	do the show with your guest or guests, and then I have to edit it all down, and that's hours
1:29.2	of listening, of course. So for sanity's sake, I'm trying to avoid anything about Trump in
1:35.1	the precious remaining time that I have in my life. Well, you know, we have to fight this guy
1:42.6	and the goons around him.
1:44.3	Of course, sure.
1:45.4	That's great.
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